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Originally Posted by campimp
I tried Cloudflare as mentioned, and it is working perfectly.
Thank you guys
In your experience, do you think there is any material SEO impact of using Cloudflare nameservers?
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From what I've seen, there's really no negative SEO impact from using Cloudflare nameservers. If anything, it might actually help a bit.
I've moved several sites to Cloudflare over the years and never saw rankings drop because of it. The speed improvements from their CDN can actually give you a small boost since page speed is a ranking factor.
Back in the early days (like 2011-2012), there were some crawler issues, but Cloudflare worked directly with Google to fix those problems. These days search engines handle Cloudflare sites without any issues.
Most case studies I've read show either no change or slight improvements after switching. The faster DNS resolution times and added security (preventing downtime from attacks) are nice bonuses too.
Google's totally fine with Cloudflare now - it's become so common that search engines have fully adapted to it. So I wouldn't worry about any SEO penalties from making the switch.